PORT CLINTON - After deliberating about seven hours over two days, an Ottawa County Common Pleas Court jury found Randall Ross guilty Thursday on all seven counts he faced, including aggravated murder, aggravated burglary and kidnapping.

Ross, 50, shot and killed his estranged wife, Amy Ross, 43, after breaking into her sister’s Carroll Township home, where she had been staying, on March 27, 2013.

Following a brief recess after the verdict was read in open court, Judge Bruce Winters sentenced Ross to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the maximum for aggravated murder in Ohio with the death penalty having been dismissed by the state last week.

Ross was also sentenced to 25 more years to be served consecutively for the other convictions — 11 for aggravated burglary, 11 for kidnapping and 3 for the firearms specification.

Two members of the victim’s family addressed the court prior to sentencing, both requesting that the maximum sentence be imposed.

“The damage done to each of us can never, ever be undone,” said Robert Mominee, Amy’s brother. “Randall, in our family, used to be Uncle Randy. He used to be my brother. I loved him as a brother. Now I can’t and I don’t see him as family anymore.”

Andrea Swope, Amy’s sister and an eyewitness to the shooting, said she and Amy shared a special relationship.

“My best friend is gone for the rest of my life,” Swope said. “Amy was abused. She was terrorized and murdered. Now she’s gone and the world is a lonelier place. The good of the world, however, will not miss Randall Ross.”

Ross also addressed the court prior to his sentencing. He said he was sorry to Swope and her daughter, Summer, who also was present during the shooting. Ross contended that he never abused his wife.

Ross' defense attorney, Merle Dech, had asked jurors to find Ross guilty only of murder, which he said is the one charge that the evidence had shown and that the state had proven.

According to Ohio law, a murder conviction could carry a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 15 years.

During closing arguments, Ottawa County Prosecutor Mark Mulligan recounted testimony from two eyewitnesses to the shooting.

According to their testimony, Ross broke through the locked front door of Swope’s farmhouse, despite demands for him to leave, chased the women to an upstairs bedroom and grabbed Amy Ross by the hair before shooting her once in the chest. They said Ross then shot himself twice in the head, but survived.

Dech argued that Ross went to the home as a last-ditch effort to save his marriage, but "snapped" and acted on a “spur of the moment” decision. Dech said that is not enough to warrant an aggravated murder conviction.

Much of the closing arguments surrounded on whether Ross acted with the intent to kill Amy Ross and based on “prior calculation and design,” one of the elements the state must prove for an aggravated murder conviction.

Mulligan presented to the jury a timeline of the morning the shooting took place, pointing to the hour elapsed from the time Ross left work to when he arrived at the Swope house.

“He has all that time to think about what he’s going to do. He has all that time to plan,” Mulligan said. “And what does he want to do? He wants to kill Amy.”

Dech said, however, that there was a lack of intent, arguing that Ross did not go to that house to commit a murder, burglary or kidnapping. Rather, he wanted to rekindle his love and get his marriage back.

“When he went to the house that day, he did not have the intent to commit a crime,” Dech said. “He wanted to get his wife back.”